Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropole (by William Walden; produced by Max Gordon) was a short-lived satiric farce which tried to poke fun at The New Yorker magazine and its fabulous editor, Harold W. Ross. Calling the magazine Metropole and the editor Frederick M. Hill, it depicted the wacky office life of a well-mannered publication, portrayed an explosive editor suffering from absentmindedness and ulcers...
...Vatican forbade him to hear confessions or officiate at any public occasion. Only after two years of painstaking investigation by doctors and others, did the church finally lift the ban on the grounds of: 1) "the undoubted presence" of the stigmata; 2) Padre Pio's holy way of life from childhood; 3) proof that "miracles have happened in the presence of Padre...
...overrated British novel of the year was Hope Muntz's care fully researched but woodenly written The Golden Warrior, the story of luckless King Harold and the Norman Conquest. The parade of Italian novels continued throughout the year, most of them reflecting the bitterness and weariness of Italian life. Much-touted Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome was a sexy, glibly written story about a young prostitute that lacked entirely the large significance claimed for it. Stronger and better stuff was Elio Vittorini's In Sicily, a sad, smoldering look at Italian poverty and hopelessness under...
...were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March probably meant an approaching rain of biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President...
...Austria differ from those in France and Italy, where the State Department is concerned primarily with selling America and American good works in competition with Communists. The problem is far more complex in the occupied countries, where the U.S. is more involved with influencing a whole way of life toward democracy. The first element in this change must be respect. America has acheived this for its material accomplishments, but our propaganda has not demonstrated the worth and vitality of democratic--and more specifically, American--culture...